Inria Chile continues its development in South America. In recent years, with Claude Puech at the helm, she has strengthened her network of contacts and has set up partnerships with investment structures to accelerate the creation of strategies in Chile. Appointed on September 1st as Director, Nayat Sanchez Pi intends to pursue this strategy and implement an ambitious settlement project that includes opening to French partners, the revitalization of the transfer policy and the establishment of a sustainable economic model.

Thirty years ago, the Web was set up to meet an ever-growing need to organise and access information. As a founding member for Europe of the W3C, Inria take a look back at the birth of the Web as both a research subject and a tool, assessing the problems that continue to be raised.

Capitalizing on five years of research-collaboration success, Mitacs and Inria renewed their partnership originally signed in 2014. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) supports two-way international research opportunities for graduate researchers at Canadian universities and at eight Inria Research Centres in France.

The CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) and Inria have awarded the 2017 "privacy protection" Prize to a European research team. During the 11th international conference Computers Privacy and Data Protection
(CPDP) to Seda GÜRSES, Carmela TRONCOSO and Claudia DIAZ for their article « Engineering privacy by design reloaded
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The CCSD (Centre for Direct Scientific Communication) and Software Heritage have announced their collaboration beginning early 2018: it will enable the data repository in HAL to be extended to software and, as a result, contribute to the recognition of the work of research software developers.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

InriaSoft aims for the durable development of large-scale software programs by bringing together their user communities within consortia that will finance a team of engineers tasked with their maintenance and evolution. The InriaSoft headquarters are based in Rennes, as Claude Labit, director, and David Margery, technical director of this national action backed by the Fondation Inria, explain.

Inria champions Open Access

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Inria reaffirms its official position regarding the deposit of written productions on an open access basis. The primary concern is the requirement to deposit the full text of all Inria project teams’ publications in HAL, the open archive.

Open access – an Inria priority

In January 2013, Inriamanagement issued a requirement that all its researchers and project teams deposit their publications in HAL, the national platform. In that context, only those publications, metadata and full texts deposited in HAL are taken into account for project teams’ activity reports (Raweb) and for their scientific evaluation.

The institute’s proactive policy on deposit in open archives has three objectives:

Increase the visibility of Inria publications by making them available in open access as soon as possible, thus helping to both increase the references to the work and facilitate the dissemination of knowledge ;

Establish a legacy corpus of Inria publications, which would otherwise be distributed in fragmentary fashion among various commercial sites, without any guarantee that it would be perpetuated and without the opportunity to use the data consistently (for example, data mining); and,

Contribute to the overall development of mechanisms for publishing scientific results by integrating the functions of referencing, archiving and sharing in the infrastructure of the institutions of higher education and research. The long-term goal is to make it possible to decouple the functions of publication and peer certification.

For full and protected access to research data

Inria’s process is based on the 2005 policy that encourages the deposit of publications in HAL and on continuous investment to improve the performance and services of the HAL platform, developed within the UMS CCSD. (Inria became a joint supervisor of this platform in 2015). It also refers to the official position of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, which emphasizes deposit in open archives as a tool of its open access policy. The European Commission also requires that projects financed under the Horizon 2020 programme provide a version of the corresponding publications on an open access basis.

The referencing of Inria publications in HAL grew rapidly in the last five years and all such publications are now referenced there (only 62% are full-text deposits, with just the metadata of the remaining 38% referenced). Inria’s objective is thus to achieve a stabilized rate of full-text deposit as close as possible to 100%. Project team members must thus consider the deposit of the full text of the publication as a requirement.

Inria believes that publishers should not define the terms and conditions of the dissemination of scientific publications,although researchers, research organisations and support agencies are responsible for conducting and funding the critical phases (research, writing, peer review and dissemination of results) of the production of knowledge. The deposit requirement is thus uniform, regardless of the scientific publisher and its stated policy, specifically with regard to embargo. In line with its policy of open dissemination of research results and in the absence of a signed publishing contract that explicitly excludes deposit in open archives, Inria’s position is thus to accept the systematic deposit, as soon as possible, of the fulltext of the author’s version after peer review of articles accepted at conferences or by journals.

To ensure the best possible balance between achieving maximum reuse of the published content and ensuring that results are attributed properly to their authors, Inria recommends the use of the Creative Commons with Attribution (CC-BY) licence for all deposits in HAL.